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This system barely deserves a PLC. The modules are only a couple of extremely basic analog inputs and outputs, plus a wildly outdated and unsupported HMI. And
by amluto 2mo ago
This system barely deserves a PLC. The modules are only a couple of extremely basic analog inputs and outputs, plus a wildly outdated and unsupported HMI. And the entire plant could possibly be replaced with something more modern for less money than upgrading the PLC. (Or I could get something cheap from AutomationDirect - I have no idea how good their PLCs are.)
- KetoManx64 2mo agoI worked at a manufacturing plant that had originally been setup in ~2003 or so and they had a bunch of servers and desktops still hanging on by a fingernail when started there. It took me about a year of but I was able to clone and virtualize them all and they all ran fine on a 6 core Proxmox server with 32GB of RAM. Really drove home the realization of how far technology has progressed and how commoditized manufacturing/enterprise tools have become.